# The manly weepers - What films are OK for men to cry while watching? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2006, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484 "2006-12-17T06:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/21 "2006-12-17T16:18:53Z")
I went a little misty at the end of _Return of The King_. The farewell scene (at the dock), although a bit “long in the tooth”, I found quite moving, and got a little teary eyed. But then I don’t feel so bad since Sean Astin’s _Sam_ cried almost through the whole damn trilogy! 😉 Q ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/22 "2006-12-17T16:24:01Z")
How about _Pride of the Yankees_? ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/23 "2006-12-17T16:27:03Z")
Last night, I got a little watery and stiff-jawed at the end of **The Last Samurai**. _You have your honor, now let me have mine._ ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/24 "2006-12-17T16:33:05Z")
_Edward Scissorhands Life is Beautiful Schindler’s List_ ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/25 "2006-12-17T16:36:09Z")
Good Will Hunting. The “it’s not your fault” scene gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/26 "2006-12-17T16:36:12Z")
[QUOTE=Malienation] \*Edward Scissorhands \* [/QUOTE] Edward Scissorhands. I (conveniently) forgot about that one. Definitely some choke up tears for that ending ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/27 "2006-12-17T16:40:09Z")
[QUOTE=NJ\_Kef] _…The Color Purple…_ [/QUOTE] _blink__What?_ Man, the only time I’d cry at that one is if someone forced me to watch it again. I’ll second _Return of the King_, but the moment that got to me is when Aragorn said, “My friends, you bow to noone,” and then he and everyone else bowed to the four Hobbits. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/28 "2006-12-17T16:41:15Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] I’ll second _Return of the King_, but the moment that got to me is when Aragorn said, “My friends, you bow to noone,” and then he and everyone else bowed to the four Hobbits. [/QUOTE] Kills me every damn time! ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/29 "2006-12-17T17:16:10Z")
**Rudy** ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/30 "2006-12-17T17:53:30Z")
I’ve posted this one before, but here goes. Years ago, I went to the movies to see The Champ with Jon Voight and Ricky Schroeder. At the end of the movie, I saw the guys hiding behind the snack bar napkins, mumbling something about “allergies”. I just smiled and walked out. (I’m female btw.) ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/31 "2006-12-17T18:01:13Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] **Rudy** [/QUOTE] Despite Notre Dame beating GT, the movie gets me every time. More recently though I’ve begun tearing up at **Cinderella Man** , I related Russel Crowe’s going off to fight to my mom’s going for her procedure and it was getting to me. – IG ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/32 "2006-12-17T18:03:47Z")
The original _Goodbye Mr. Chips_. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/33 "2006-12-17T18:12:50Z")
Big Fish got me. I apparently had (have) some unresolved issues with my father and that movie poked a big stick right into a nest of them. The other movie scene that gets me puddle-eyed is Forrest Gump’s scene by Jenny’s grave. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/34 "2006-12-17T18:17:32Z")
[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead] Last night, I got a little watery and stiff-jawed at the end of **The Last Samurai**. [/QUOTE] Yeah, me too. I couldn’t believe just how badly they ripped off Akira Kurosawa. Talking about Kurosawa, the ending of _[Ran](http://imdb.com/title/tt0089881/)_ is heartbreaking. And I swear, I actually shed a few tears after seeing _[The Wild Bunch](http://imdb.com/title/tt0089881/)_ and _[The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance](http://imdb.com/title/tt0056217/)_. I also have watery eyes at the end of _[The Triplets of Belleville](http://imdb.com/title/tt0286244/)_, but I think that’s mostly from laughing so hard at the final chase sequence. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Middlea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@Middlea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Middlea)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/35 "2006-12-17T18:25:24Z")
I’ve had male friends tell me they cried at “The Green Mile”. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/36 "2006-12-17T18:32:55Z")
> [@](#): > > I went a little misty at the end of Return of The King. The farewell scene (at the dock), although a bit “long in the tooth”, I found quite moving, and got a little teary eyed. Mr. Lissar started crying somewhere around when Gandalf rode into Minas Tirith in FotR, and then cried almost all the way through the other two movies. 😃 Well, not TTT so much, but certainly through RotK. Oh, he cries during _Hero_, too. The death scene at the end. ---
**Author:** ![cardsfan1975](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@cardsfan1975](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cardsfan1975)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/37 "2006-12-17T18:39:45Z")
If I haven’t seen _The Rookie_ in a while, my eyes well up when Dennis Quaid is told by his minor league manager that he’s being called up to the Devil Rays. cf’75 ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/38 "2006-12-17T19:03:46Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] The other movie scene that gets me puddle-eyed is Forrest Gump’s scene by Jenny’s grave. [/QUOTE] For me, it’s when Forrest has held his speech while the microphone isn’t working and Jenny comes running across the water and Forrest runs to meet her and they embrace and thousands of hippies cheer. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/39 "2006-12-17T19:05:53Z")
[QUOTE=cardsfan1975] If I haven’t seen _The Rookie_ in a while, my eyes well up when Dennis Quaid is told by his minor league manager that he’s being called up to the Devil Rays. [/QUOTE] Yeah, there’s a cruel irony: “You’re getting called up… to pitch for the _Devil Rays_.” Actually I’d forgotten about that one. The scene that gets me is right after that, when he calls his son and says, “Your old man’s going to pitch in the majors!” I pretty much lost it at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484/40 "2006-12-17T19:07:28Z")
I asked my husband. He’s a stereotypical big, dumb guy. Manly man, etc. His list: The Champ Bridges of Madison County (this one freaked me out a bit) Forrest Gump (when Forrest meets his son) Titanic Lord of the Rings (the whole bowing thing, although he admits more) Saving Private Ryan (As the old guy in the cemetary when asked if he had lived a good life) I’ll throw this tidbit in here. The fact that he admits that any of them had any emotional impact on him whatsoever is an amazing feat in itself. Emotions are that which should be wadded up in a little ball and choked down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-manly-weepers-what-films-are-ok-for-men-to-cry-while-watching/384484.md?page=3)